Was it Home or Pro? not that it matters Xp is the worst fiasco ive seen since ME first came out.. I know that Home is crippled so as not to allow you to do business associated things, no domain level security no client32 for novell ect...It aso has a built in firewall thats been causing problems, and if you accidentally enable internet connection sharing it will reset all your ip settings to generic and turn itself into a competeing DHCP server on ur network.